Journal of Vascular Surgery
Volume 50, Issue 2 , Pages 349-354 , August 2009

Under-representation of women and ethnic minorities in vascular surgery randomized controlled trials

Presented at the Thirty-sixth Annual Symposium of the Society for Clinical Vascular Surgery, Las Vegas, Nev, Mar 5-8, 2008.

  • Andrew W. Hoel, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Vascular Surgery, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, Mass
    • ,
  • Ahmed Kayssi, MSc

      Affiliations

    • Division of Vascular Surgery, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, Mass
    • ,
  • Soma Brahmanandam, MD, MPH

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery, University of Massachusetts Medical Center, Worchester, Mass
    • ,
  • Michael Belkin, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Vascular Surgery, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, Mass
    • ,
  • Michael S. Conte, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Vascular Surgery, University of California San Francisco Medical Center, San Francisco, Calif
    • ,
  • Louis L. Nguyen, MD, MBA, MPH

      Affiliations

    • Division of Vascular Surgery, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, Mass
    • Center for Surgery & Public Health, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, Mass
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorrespondence: Louis L. Nguyen, MD, MBA, MPH, Division of Vascular & Endovascular Surgery and the Center for Surgery & Public Health, Brigham & Women's Hospital, 75 Francis St, Boston, MA 02115

Received 18 October 2008 ,Accepted 7 January 2009.

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 This work was supported by a National Institutes of Health (NIH) K23 Research Career Development Award (HL084386) to Dr Nguyen.

 Competition of interest: none.

 Additional material for this article may be found online at www.jvascsurg.org.

PII: S0741-5214(09)00018-4

doi: 10.1016/j.jvs.2009.01.012

Journal of Vascular Surgery
Volume 50, Issue 2 , Pages 349-354 , August 2009

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